Farewell Citizen Voices

Three elections. A new president. Same-sex marriage rights granted
and taken away. It's been quite a year. And the Citizen Voices contributors have
blogged their way through it all with great aplomb and candor.

Now that the election is over, it's time to say farewell to
the Citizen Voices blog. I'm sad to see this project laid to rest. & We started this blog because we wanted to
see the election from
your
perspectives.
We wanted to get away from the usual punditry, and find out what you, the
public, were thinking about the elections.

I am honored to have worked with our seven "Citizen Voices":
Alma
,
Candace
,
Chris
,
Chuck
,
Jessica
,
Steven
and
Trina
. I thank these talented and passionate writers for
their time, dedication, enthusiasm and honesty. And I thank you, the community
of readers and commenters, for participating in our experiment in civic
dialogue. We love that many of you have voiced your opinions as actively as our
regular bloggers to become part of the Citizen Voices dialogue. (Speaking of
which - if you haven't taken our
survey
yet, please do so.
We'd love to hear from you. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's
Public Media Innovation Fund, which helped pay for the project, wants to know
what you thought of our little experiment in online democracy.)

We set out to learn how to bring together
diverse opinions in an interesting and engaging way. We think we succeeded. So
much, that we plan to do this again. Have ideas for topics? Leave a comment
below. Otherwise, check back with us for our next iteration of "citizen
journalism" in the coming months. &

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